16 UCO Bank lockers burgled

ALLAHABAD: Unidentified masked miscreants broke into the UCO Bank’s Civil Lines branch on Sunday evening and emptied as many as 16 lockers which contained jewellery, cash and documents value lakhs of rupees.

The housebreaking came to gentle on Tuesday when the bank opened after three days.

The exact loss was once being assessed by way of the bank government with the help of consumers.

Special Task Force (STF) has additionally been roped in to help the Allahabad police.

SSP Allahabad Akash Kulhary mentioned, “A case beneath sections 457 and 380 of IPC has been lodged with Civil Lines police at the complaint of senior bank manager Mayank Singh.”

“Five police teams and STF are running to crack the case. The burglars have broken many of the smoke detectors, CCTV cameras and laptop modem after entering the bank. The bank’s security guard was once on leave for the past seven months,” the SSP mentioned.

The SSP mentioned the burglars had an even thought of the bank’s layout and entered after breaking window grille. The burglars had minimize a portion of the gate resulting in the strongroom and made a futile attempt to smash the primary chest. They broke as many as 16 lockers and picked up the property.

The police have additionally recovered a heavy gas cutter along side gas cylinder and different lock breaking equipment at the spot.


The SSP mentioned that the housebreaking came to gentle when the bank government opened the bank within the morning after three days holidays.


Senior police officers, together with IG (Allahabad vary) Ramit Sharma, additional SP Sukirti Madhav along side forensic professionals and sniffer canine squad reached the spot and carried out investigations.


“When I entered the bank, the lock of the locker room was once broken and things have been scattered throughout. On going additional, I discovered that several lockers have been broken,” mentioned a bank staff.


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